DEANB:
Interesting Paul, i must admit i had forgotten about that type of Dennis truck.
Like you say Dennis were renowned for building chassis for dust carts and fire engines,a bit like Shelvoke & Drewry who were
the same. Good pics.
A few firms had them for middle distance but not many used them on long distance like Hinchliffe’s of Bury did.
Good stuff chap, as far as i know Dennis are still going. Although over the last few years i have not noticed
alot more of those low level mercedes chassis being used as dust carts.
moomooland:
In May 1998 Cuprinol was sold to ICI Paints.
In September 2000, ICI announced that the Cuprinol site at Frome was to close within a year with all production transferred to Slough.
They ran a tidy fleet of draw-bar trailers over the years and changed their livery to green in 1989.
Punchy Dan:
Ey Chris did you ever see the scale model at coalite of the chemical plant ?
No Dan,never saw that,was it in reception? If so I never got that far,only weighbridge to Boiler Plant.Can smell it now…
Chris have a look on Flickr at paulio ,I seem to think he or someone found a bag of slides/ negatives from there , it still smells now , how they will ever do anything with it I’ll never know ,the river was reported to be so pollouted that it was safer to leave it than re course it
Aye it was an aromatic place that’s for sure,but was a good job driving for them apparantly.You can just see Coalite int distance in this photo,you knew you were near cos you could whiff it miles away.Looks like one of Wilsons ERFs from Ardwick/Stockport plodding along.According to what I’ve read,Coalite site is worse than the old Avenue site at Wingerworth when it comes to cleaning up…
I’ll have a look on Flickr,thanks Dan.
Nice pic Chris, Nice to see all the old stuff from the 1970s. The P6 Rover was some car ,my grandad had
the V8 3.5 litre that was some motor back in the 70s.
Hi dean ,you can tell there was no health & safety back then how many would let you wear just shorts and no t shirt in steelworks nowadays they weren’t allowed to stop so that’s why the bags were given to each driver and it was well organised with the loading the orange and White shovels were Maggie Deutsch and the big ones were cats ,I used to work for Meeks internal in the abbey we had 7 trucks running 3 shifts running Coke from the Morva to the blast furnace 13 loads each with 5 trucks on it and 1 for loading Coke for up country
S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
I remember in the late 1960’s early 1970’s they used to load up with timber off the boats on the public access dockside at Scarborough.
moomooland:
S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
I remember in the late 1960’s early 1970’s they used to load up with timber off the boats on the public access dockside at Scarborough.
Here’s one of their ERF EC12’S which was new in October 1996.
Bubbs is that your old Taylor Barnard Volvo shunter parked next to it?
Hi Paul,at first glance I thought it could have been our old shunter which I took a shine to and drove it at night …the front o/s corner panel was white like the one in the shot but one of West Transports backed into her one night and stuffed the front grille in,a replacement was sourced and they painted in the white panel while the paint was in the gun…as you can see mine had a different air deflector on the roof.The attached pic was taken on her last day at Bristol before she went to Bradford to become their shunter as the engine was smoking too bad to get through the test,Cheers Bubbs,
smallcoal:
Hi dean ,you can tell there was no health & safety back then how many would let you wear just shorts and no t shirt in steelworks nowadays they weren’t allowed to stop so that’s why the bags were given to each driver and it was well organised with the loading the orange and White shovels were Maggie Deutsch and the big ones were cats ,I used to work for Meeks internal in the abbey we had 7 trucks running 3 shifts running Coke from the Morva to the blast furnace 13 loads each with 5 trucks on it and 1 for loading Coke for up country
Hello John, was it this company you workd for E & J Meeks ■■?
moomooland:
1S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
I remember in the late 1960’s early 1970’s they used to load up with timber off the boats on the public access dockside at Scarborough.
0Here’s one of their ERF EC12’S which was new in October 1996.
Bubbs is that your old Taylor Barnard Volvo shunter parked next to it?
Thanks for the pic Paul, not the best colour scheme !!
bubbleman:
moomooland:
2S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
I remember in the late 1960’s early 1970’s they used to load up with timber off the boats on the public access dockside at Scarborough.
1Here’s one of their ERF EC12’S which was new in October 1996.
Bubbs is that your old Taylor Barnard Volvo shunter parked next to it?
Hi Paul,at first glance I thought it could have been our old shunter which I took a shine to and drove it at night …the front o/s corner panel was white like the one in the shot but one of West Transports backed into her one night and stuffed the front grille in,a replacement was sourced and they painted in the white panel while the paint was in the gun…as you can see mine had a different air deflector on the roof.The attached pic was taken on her last day at Bristol before she went to Bradford to become their shunter as the engine was smoking too bad to get through the test,Cheers Bubbs,
Joseph Hoyle Transport Ltd were from Audenshaw near Manchester and also had depots in Congleton, Darley Dale and Wakefield.
From their Manchester depot they used to carry a lot of steel out of the long gone wire works in Openshaw.
In 1988 Joseph Hoyle Transport was taken over by Maxi Haulage Ltd.
smallcoal:
Hi dean ,you can tell there was no health & safety back then how many would let you wear just shorts and no t shirt in steelworks nowadays they weren’t allowed to stop so that’s why the bags were given to each driver and it was well organised with the loading the orange and White shovels were Maggie Deutsch and the big ones were cats ,I used to work for Meeks internal in the abbey we had 7 trucks running 3 shifts running Coke from the Morva to the blast furnace 13 loads each with 5 trucks on it and 1 for loading Coke for up country
Hello John, was it this company you workd for E & J Meeks ■■?
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Hi dean yes they were based in Newport as well and had the Coke contract in port talbot we had day cab erf and steel high body tandem tippers we used to go through 10 springs a week we used to stack the trailers high
moomooland:
S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
I remember in the late 1960’s early 1970’s they used to load up with timber off the boats on the public access dockside at Scarborough.
Here’s one of their ERF EC12’S which was new in October 1996.
Bubbs is that your old Taylor Barnard Volvo shunter parked next to it?
I thought he did Middle East mentions it in this article.
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Thanks Dean,
If my small brain cells are still working, he bought a Tilt wagon and drag on leaving the Army and ran some middle east but of course the regulations, (even then) were very strict on explosive movement so he quickly changed and grew very quickly, Thanks again for the pictures, happy days. RIP Ian… Harvey
Did I read somewhere about him doing his first M/E trips in an Atkinson?
moomooland:
2Joseph Hoyle Transport Ltd were from Audenshaw near Manchester and also had depots in Congleton, Darley Dale and Wakefield.
From their Manchester depot they used to carry a lot of steel out of the long gone wire works in Openshaw.
In 1988 Joseph Hoyle Transport was taken over by Maxi Haulage Ltd.
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Thanks for the pics Paul !
smallcoal:
DEANB:
smallcoal:
Hi dean ,you can tell there was no health & safety back then how many would let you wear just shorts and no t shirt in steelworks nowadays they weren’t allowed to stop so that’s why the bags were given to each driver and it was well organised with the loading the orange and White shovels were Maggie Deutsch and the big ones were cats ,I used to work for Meeks internal in the abbey we had 7 trucks running 3 shifts running Coke from the Morva to the blast furnace 13 loads each with 5 trucks on it and 1 for loading Coke for up country
Hello John, was it this company you workd for E & J Meeks ■■?
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Hi dean yes they were based in Newport as well and had the Coke contract in port talbot we had day cab erf and steel high body tandem tippers we used to go through 10 springs a week we used to stack the trailers high
10 springs a week ! Stroll on John !
artic monkey:
moomooland:
2S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
I remember in the late 1960’s early 1970’s they used to load up with timber off the boats on the public access dockside at Scarborough.
1Here’s one of their ERF EC12’S which was new in October 1996.
Bubbs is that your old Taylor Barnard Volvo shunter parked next to it?
Thanks for the pic “artic monkey”
moomooland:
0S.A. Bell Ltd Leyland Buffalo Reg No OBT 277T was new in November 1978.
Another good pic Paul !
240 Gardner:
HRS:
DEANB:
Article about E.C.Transport.
I thought he did Middle East mentions it in this article.
Click on pages twice to view.
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1
Thanks Dean,
If my small brain cells are still working, he bought a Tilt wagon and drag on leaving the Army and ran some middle east but of course the regulations, (even then) were very strict on explosive movement so he quickly changed and grew very quickly, Thanks again for the pictures, happy days. RIP Ian… Harvey
Did I read somewhere about him doing his first M/E trips in an Atkinson?
If you read the article Chris it says that he had a Atki on middle east.
R.K.Crisp were part of the Richards & Wallington Group based on Wharf Road Birmingham with 30 other depots spread out across the country.
The company had around 200 vehicles and did national and continental work with tilts and low-loaders.
20% of their work was for the British Crane Hire Corporation (BCHC).
Hi all,
Great photos yet again! Don’t know if it’s been mentioned? The green F86 was owned by D.Nicholls transport from Cardiff.The driver was known as “Dai the eye”. I love the Welsh haulage industry nicknames.I am told,“Moscow Beavan” was so called because he was the first driver to take a coach to Russia for Excelsior European coaches of Bournemouth.
Regards Andrew.
Well andrew me old mate that clears moscows name couple funny nicknames Dennis the hat.roger tut tut. Dai sausage. Oddball. The mouse .ralph the neck. The Dukes. Billy pipe e. Arter pipe.supernuts.king Louie he stank.the monk.bryn the animal.billy the shunt.all worked for catnic ah ah regards rowly
S A Bell Ltd were from Malton North Yorkshire.
